The Pat Sajak Show is an American late-night television talk show which aired on CBS from January 9, 1989 to April 13, 1990.
The show was hosted by Pat Sajak, best known as host of the game show Wheel of Fortune. In order to do the talk show, Sajak left the NBC daytime version of Wheel, but remained the host of the syndicated nighttime version.
Sajak's announcer and sidekick on the show was the late Dan Miller, his friend and former colleague fro...
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The Pat Sajak Show is an American late-night television talk show which aired on CBS from January 9, 1989 to April 13, 1990.
The show was hosted by Pat Sajak, best known as host of the game show Wheel of Fortune. In order to do the talk show, Sajak left the NBC daytime version of Wheel, but remained the host of the syndicated nighttime version.
Sajak's announcer and sidekick on the show was the late Dan Miller, his friend and former colleague from their time working together on weekend newscasts at WSM-TV in Nashville, Tennessee, in the mid-1970s. The in-studio band was led by jazz musician Tom Scott.
Sajak was hired by Michael Brockman, the CBS vice-president for daytime, children's and late-night programming, who wanted to have a late-night talk show established when Carson eventually announced his retirement. Brockman had known Sajak since the two were working for NBC in the late 1970s. Back then, Brockman had approached Sajak, a weatherman, about doing a game show, but Sajak...
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